Detachable auxiliary holder for shelves and tables.



. G. EGGL.

DETAGHABLE AUXILIARY HOLDER FOR SHELVBS AND TABLES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2, 1908. V

Patented 0013.20, 1908.

INVENTOR 9m M V WITNESSES: $.01. M

GREGOR EGGL, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

DETACHABLE AUXILIARY HOLDER FOR SI-ELVES AND TABLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 2, 1908.

Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

Serial No. 409,086.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GREGOR EGGL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Detachable Auxiliary Holdersfor Shelves and Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a detachable auxiliary holder for shelves,tables, counters and the like, and has for its object to provide adevice of the kind that is adapted to be made in various suitable formsand that is conveniently and readily attached to and de' tached from theunderside of shelving for the safe support and display of glasses,bottles and various articles, and also to the underside of tables andcounter tops for the convenient support of drinking glasses and thelike. I accomplish these objects by the construction and combination ofparts as hereinafter described and illustrated in the drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a front elevation of a shelf equipped for receiving holdersconstructed in accordance with my invention and showing both single andseries holders attached thereto. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of aseries holder. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same with a portion of theshelf broken away. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a holder constructedin accordance with my invention adapted to hold books. Fig. 5 is a sideelevation of the same, and Fig. 6 is a cross section of the same on linew-w.

In the drawings 1 designates a shelf, to the underside of which isattached the supporting bracket 2 formed of a sheet metal strip ofsuitable width and length, having end portions 8 and intermediateportions 3 bent to form the steps 1 and the portions 5 between the stepsin a parallel plane with the end portions 3. The end portions 3 and theportions 3 are perforated for their attachment by screws 6 to theunderside of the shelf 1.

7 designates a holder comprising a sheet metal body 8 designed to hold adrinking glass or other cylindrical article, and formed of a sheet metalblank bent semi-cylindrical and provided with a circular bottom 9 ha"-ing a diameter equal to the diameter of the inner circle of the body 8.The top end portion of the holder 7 is provided with a narrow slot 10parallel with its top end and located a distance therefrom equal to thedistance between a portion 5 of the supporting bracket 2 and theunderside of the shelf or top 1. The slot 10 extends through the back ofthe holder body 8 towards its front edges 11, and the distance betweenthe front edges 11 of the holder body ,preferably equals the length of aportion 5 of the brackets 2. The edges 11 of the body 8 have curvedincuts 12 formed therein, whereby the article mounted and supported onthe bottom 9 may be readily grasped to remove it therefrom. Thusconstructed the holder 7 may be readily and conveniently attached to thebracket 2 by placing the top end of the holder against the under side ofthe shelf 1 in front of the bracket 2, and pushing it back until thecentral portion 5 of the bracket has fully entered within the slot 10 ofthe holder, in which position the holder is firmly supported by thebracket 2 with its top end engaged with the underside of the shelf 1,and is as readily detached therefrom by grasping the holder body andpulling it outward until the central portion 5 of the bracket isdetached from the slot 10.

In forming the holders 7 the front edges 11 are preferably separated aslightly greater distance than are the steps 4. of the brackets 2 sothat the sides of the holder are sprung inward when the ends of the slot10 are against the front edge of the middle portion 5 of the bracketplate 2 thereby creating a lateral pressure that operates to increasethe firmness of attachment of the holder, and in detaching the holder byslightly compressing the sides inward, the holder is readily removed andthis principle of construction is preferabl used in all forms ofholders.

Single olders of the form shown in Fig. 1 are specially adapted forattachment to the undersides of the tops of card tables for holdingdrinking glasses. In Fig. 1 is shown a form of holder 7 that is providedwith a series of ledges 9, and which is adapted to receive and support aset of drinking glasses or bottles, and it is manifest that a shop orstore shelf equipped with holders of like construction would beconvenient for the display and support of'articles of the kind kept anddisplayed in drug stores and groceries and that the holders forms hereinshown.

* the like, the combination with a shelf, of a holder 1% having a back15, sides 16, and a ledge 17 adapted to receive and support a book andit is manifest that such holders, made either in the single or seriesform, are convenient for library cases. In Figs. i and 5 the bracketplate 2 is shown supplemented by a face place 2 which is interposedbetween the underside of the shelf or table top and the plate 2, and isprovided with orifices registering with the orifices of the plate 2,whereby the attaching screws 6 secure both the face plate and thebracket plate. Thus secured, the face plate intervenes between the topof the holder and the shelf and prevents injury to the face of theshelf, in attaching and detaching the holders.

It is manifest that the principle of con struction shown and describedmay be applied to various forms of detachable holders, and I thereforedo. not limit myself to the V hat I claim to be new is 1. In adetachable holder for shelves and sheet metal holder body bent to form arecess open at the front and top, the holder body being provided with asupporting ledge at its lower end portion and with a slot in its upperend portion parallel with its top end and extending through the backtowards the front of the holder, and a plate adapted to be secured tothe underside of the shelf in position to enter the slot when the holderwith its top end engaging the underside of the shelf is pushed backthereon.

2. In a detachable auxiliary holder for shelves and the like, a platehaving supports adapted to secure a portion between the supportsparallel with and a distance below the underside of a shelf or tabletop, and a recessed holder body open at the front and provided with asupporting ledge, and hav- 1 ing its top end portion provided with aslot to receive the portion of the plate between the supports when thetop end of the holder body is engaged with the underside of the shelfand pushed back towards the plate.

3. A detachable auxiliary holder for shelves, table tops and the like,comprising an elongated metal supporting plate, having stepped upportions adapted to be secured to the underside of a' shelf or table topand support the intervening portion or portions parallel with the shelfor table top, and a semi-cylindrical holder body having a slot in itstop end portion adapted to receive an intervening portion of the platewith the upper end of the holder in engagement with the underside of theshelf, and provided with a ledge or ledges at an interval or intervalsbelow the top.

l. A detachable auxiliary holder for shelves, comprising an elongatedmetal supporting plate having stepped up portions adapted to be securedto the underside of a shelf and support an intervening portion parallelwith the shelf, and a holder formed of sheet metal bent to form sideportions and a back portion, and provided at the top end portion with aslot extending parallel with the top and through the back portion andpartly through the side portions and adapted to receive the middleportion of the supporting plate, and at the lower end portion with aledge adapted to support the object it is designed to support, partlybetween and partly without the sides of the holder.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses, this 2lth day of December, 1907.

GREGOR EGGL. In presence of- MARK lVmcl-nisrna, lV. BILLINGSLEA.

